ONE POSSIBLY 18TH CENTURY, THE OTHER LATER

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD ORNAMENTS
ONE POSSIBLY 18TH CENTURY, THE OTHER LATER
Each depicting a youth bearing a goblet on a bilygoat, on a rockwork base and a modern green marbleised canted rectangular panelled pedestal
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) wide; 13½ (34 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

These tazza-bearing youths, sporting with goats at the Feast of Bacchus, relate to those of a George II Roman-fashioned sideboard-table with marble top that was gifted to London's Foundling Hospital by the architect John Sanderson (d. 1774) (S. Jervis, 'Browsholme', Burlington Magazine, June 2005, p. 379, fig. 21).

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